| The Mercer Slough Environment Education Center in Bellevue hosted a native edibles workshop | We like to eat, and we like the outdoors, so it seemed like a good bet to go | The Education Center is very nice, a wooded haven in the city | Before the workshop activities started, we took a walk around | We even saw a duck | They have a nice extended balcony from which you can see the wetlands and surrounding forest | We can’t remember the name of these berries, but they looked great |
| Same berry shrub, but without the zoom | The activities started with us using various dyes made from native plants to paint | Then one of the guides took us around and showed us what’s good to eat and what’s not (this particular bush is not) | Salmon berries did not do very well this summer | Another edible we can’t recall the name of…salal, maybe? | Yet another unknown berry | We recall this tastes like apples, but not much else |
| Sure seems like we should have written some of this down ☺ | Well, we’ll get the book and then we can remind ourselves | When the eating was done, then we went in and learned about making rope | And to tie it all back to the edibles, we used the dyes to color our hand-made ropes | After the workshop, they unlocked the observation tower and we went up to take in the view | The site has two buildings with green roofs…one installation was much more successful than the other | Seems they used the wrong stuff or something and it didn’t grow |
